Love Song For Lucinda By Langston Hughes

The poem, “Love Song for Lucinda” by Langston Hughes is about love and what it takes to be in love. Hughes uses a lot of metaphors and only three stanzas to talk about love in the poem. In the first stanza his poem states, “And the spell of its enchantment / Will never let you be” (5-6). Hughes puts this in his poem because love is supposed to always be there, and isn’t supposed to die. You are supposed to fall so in love that you are almost under a spell, and you can’t see which way is up. In the second stanza the poem states, “Look too hard / And it’s burning flame / Will always hurt your eyes” (10-12). Hughes is saying that even though love is beautiful and passionate if you try to dissect each and every thing it will hurt. Looking